Native Tab support

[marcde...@gmail.com]

Hello Neil,

this tool is really great, thank you so much.

However, almost all of my files are tab (ASCII 9) separated.
I would highly appreciate if you could add native tab support with version 1.7.
It is a single character, so it should be possible. All CSV editors support tab.

Currently, I have to do tedious things like:
csvfix read_dsv -s \t customer.txt | csvfix order -f 3,2,1 | csvfix write_dsv -s \t

BTW, '\t' as documented doesn't work with my Window 10 command line,
I have to use either double quotes "\t" or no quotes. Single quotes don't work.

Thank you again,
Marc

[Neil Butterworth]

> However, almost all of my files are tab (ASCII 9) separated.I would highly appreciate if you could add native tab support with version 1.7. It is a single character, so it should be possible. All CSV editors support tab. Currently, I have to do tedious things like:

csvfix read_dsv -s \t customer.txt | csvfix order -f 3,2,1 | csvfix write_dsv -s \t

There probably will not be a CSVfix 1.7, so I'm afraid you will  have to put up with the inconvenience.

> BTW, '\t' as documented doesn't work with my Window 10 command line, I have to use either double quotes "\t" or no quotes. Single quotes don't work.

From the help file:

> The type of quotes you need to use will vary with the shell you are using, but in general you should use double-quotes if you are using the Windows cmd.exe shell, and single quotes if you are using a shell such as bash. This also affects the quoting for the expression language.

[marcde...@gmail.com]

Thank you Neil, I appreciate you work.
I know it is hard work, only updating the help file takes time.
However, if you consider sometime to create a new version
I would be very thankful.